April - May 2023

Discover Britain

Showcasing the best of the British Isles.

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Brit Edit
Britain’s oldest working hospital is to be given a much-needed injection of funding to help restore and conserve its incredible interiors. Barts Heritage has been awarded £4.9m by The National Lottery Heritage Fund ahead of St Bartholomew’s Hospita
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Over To You...
I always enjoy reading Discover Britain and learn something new from every issue. However, I have a few questions about the Amazing Grace article (Issue 232, Feb/ Mar 23). On page 68 we are informed that Newton “...served in the Royal Navy, later tra
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Get Your Kicks On The SOUTH WEST 66…0
Down in hidden sandy coves, you can explore ancient smugglers’ tunnels carved through the cliffs. Later that same day you could stroll through giant dunes to a huge beach where enormous transatlantic breakers arrive in Europe with a foamy crash. From
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Powderham Castle
Powderham Castle is one of the UK’s most unique, historic homes, set in an enviable position on the Exe Estuary within an ancient deer park, near Exeter, in the heart of Devon. Powderham’s exterior is an extraordinary sight. The outstanding battlemen
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Welcome!
This issue, with summer on the horizon, our travel special (p13) has taken us to Britain’s most popular holiday region: England’s South West. This 47-page guide is so packed with inspiration that we predict you’ll have booked your next trip to Devon,
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The ROMAN BATHS
The Roman Baths are one of the world’s great historical places. Built 2,000 years ago, the spa and temple complex at Aquae Sulis – as Bath was known – drew people from across the Empire. They came to pray to the goddess Sulis Minerva, and soak and go
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Time for TEA
Although the origins of cream tea are often disputed, according to local Devonshire historians, the act of adding jam and cream to bread was first concocted in Devon in the 11th century by the monks of Tavistock Abbey. Now, an indulgent cream tea is
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A Legend Is Born
Whispers of magic and legend swirl around the spectacularly positioned Tintagel Castle, built half on the mainland and half on a headland that projects into the sea off the North Cornish coastline. Impossibly romantic, for centuries this castle has f
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Exeter
For a relatively small city, Exeter, Devon’s lively, historic capital, has a lot to boast about. Laying claim to spectacular Roman ruins, Britain’s third largest Roman coin hoard, and a Norman cathedral with the longest unbroken stretch of Gothic vau
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Cornwall’s WILD WEST
Cornwall’s ‘Wild West’ has something for everyone, from its golden sandy beaches, rugged granite cliffs, Neolithic standing stones and Bronze Age stone circles to its secluded fishing coves and UNESCO World Heritage Sites. And that’s before you even
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Drinking In The DEVON SCENERY
South Hams in Devon is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty – a place of rolling hills, sandy coves, and charming villages, which takes in one of the finest stretches of coastal South Devon. Along with fishing, farming has long been one of the main
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Devon’s Bohemians
What unites Jacqueline du Pré, Aldous Huxley, Ravi Shankar, T. E. Lawrence, and George Bernard Shaw? These cultural and scientific titans of the 20th century – as well as many more notables aside – were brought together by a radical experiment amid t
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Know your Kernow?
In AD936 Athelstan, Saxon King of Wessex, entreated King Hywel of Kernow (Cornwall) to establish a boundary at the River Tamar and it is now considered the oldest national boundary in Europe. As England slowly coagulated into existence, Cornwall rema
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Celebrate The Coronation
Though at the time of press a time had not yet been confirmed, it’s understood that the Coronation Service will take place on the morning of Saturday, 6 May 2023 at Westminster Abbey. The King and The Queen Consort will arrive at Westminster Abbey
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The CORONATION
When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned on 2 June 1953, she left wearing a six-and-a-half-metre-long Robe of Estate (or Imperial Robe) made of purple velvet and silk, trimmed in ermine, and decorated in golden thread. It was a statement piece, created by
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The Turbulent Priest
As monks were singing vespers amid the twilight glow of candles in Canterbury Cathedral one winter afternoon, the peace was violently shattered by a shout for “Thomas Becket, traitor to the king and the kingdom.” Four armed knights fortified by liquo
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May Merriment
There’s something undeniably uplifting about the unfurling of nature that occurs in the British Isles as the days grow longer, brighter and warmer. Winter clothes are optimistically packed away, while thoughts turn to picnics, barbecues and walks in
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Cotswolds Diary
As a travel writer I am privileged to visit some wonderful places. Regional landscapes, forests, parks, and gardens provide me with inspiration and I’m often tempted to recreate what I’ve seen in some small way in my garden on the farm when I return
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London SPOTLIGHT
As Leonard Bernstein said: “Life without music is unthinkable”. Luckily, in London, where the very idea of the concert was first born (violinist John Banister started giving performances to the public at his Whitefriars home in 1672), one is never to
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CROSSWORD & QUIZ
Solutions in next issue 7 Tributary of the Thames that flowsthrough the Cotswolds (8)9 Devon city whose cathedral of St Peterwas built between 1280 and 1369 (6)10 Catherine ________, sixth wife ofHenry VIII (4)11 Port and resort on the southeast coas

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